Now when I’ve been lucky enough to have an open fire in the first place, I’ve typically just rolled old newspaper into balls. However, this slightly pretentious (yet elegant) creates ready to use logs out of old newspapers ready to start your fire.
Author: Dan (EnviroGadget Writer) (Daniel Harrison)
Piranha Dynamo and Rechargeable Shaver
It’s refreshing to find a hand-powered green gadget that’s actually useful, particularly with the . With just 1 minute of cranking, you get 80 seconds of shaving time. If you charge up the shaver via the mains, it would take 8 hours and give you around 60 minutes of shaving. However, if you’re in the...
Fully Automatic Solar Powered Lawn Mower
A US company called Husqvarna has just announced the release of an eco friendly gadget, the AutoMower Solar Hybrid, which is basically a solar-powered (topped up with mains electricity) automated robotic lawn mower. Once a garden is set up with an underground perimeter fence, the AutoMower Solar Hybrid can manage cutting lawns up to half...
Thumbnail Gallery of Green Gadgets up to 25th Oct 2008
Thumbnail Gallery of Green Gadgets up to 10-25-2008
Environmentally Conscious Pest Control Service
Nobody likes having creepy crawlies in their home. There’s nothing nice about sharing your home with wasps, rats, roaches or any other pest. Unfortunately, usually the most effective way to control an infestation in your home is to kill the pest. Insects don’t exactly lend themselves very well to being trapped and released. Some of...
Energy Usage Tracking – The Energy Detective
The Energy Detective is an energy consumption monitoring eco gadget that joins a growing line of energy monitoring kits that are appearing on the market. However, where this kit really stands out is the option to have their own full-featured computer interface kit that gives you all kinds of statistics and monitoring information. Something missing...
USB Flash Memory made from Wooden Sticks
Now this is something you don’t see every day. Flash Sticks are a great eco-friendly technology, USB flash memory sticks literally housed in a stick! The wood for these flash sticks are harvested from silver birch, collected from the woodlands in Berkshire, England.
WaterMill: Drinking Water out of thin air!
The WaterMill is an elegant solution for providing pure drinking water, by literally condensing water vapour in the air into an internal chamber. According to the ElementFour website, atmosphere contains between 4g and 25g of water per cubic metre. Of which, the WaterMill can convert between 10 and 40% of that water vapour into drinkable...
Eco Friendly Green Printing Services
We’ve yet to see a wide range of eco-friendly gadgets hitting our offices yet, so when the need to print something important comes along, it’s more economical to use a printing service. Thankfully some environmentally conscious printing companies are starting to pop up. These printing services can print business cards, custom stickers, custom postcards, custom...
Eco-Friendly Fishing – BioDegradeable Fishing Line
If you’re into your fishing, you’ll know that sometimes the line will just break or it needs to be cut for safety reasons. Unfortunately, most fishing lines are petroleum-based polymers that can take up to 600 years to break down. This huge length of time can have a surprisingly devastating effect on marine life. However,...